As announced with the invitation to the General Assembly, and also due to a lack of enough candidates for a new board, the participants at the Extraordinary General Assembly have decided to close the association. The minutes are available at the annex.
The Board has been discharged and we thank all the people that was been engaged in the past years in the life of the association. Through your motivation it was possible to improve the conditions of a lot of fellows.
As some money still remaining, we will donate a part of the money to associations were members are active, incl. the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA). And we have also decided to offer a microgrant per year per full member that want to apply for it, with a max. amount of 500 EUR, to cover travel costs and / or conference fees. We calculated that it would be possible to offer around 20 microgrants. Please apply with a detailed explanation of the activities and the asked budget to mcfa.natalia.balcazar@gmail.com. You will have afterwards to sent a Reimboursement Form fullfilled to receive the money. We will send you the Form.
Your data will be not transferred. We will still using the database as long as we still giving microgrants, to be sure that the applicants were full members in 2019. After all the money is used, we will deleted the database. We will announce here the date of deleting one month before. We plan also to make some anonimysed statistics.
We encourage you to join the Marie Curie Alumni Association (free of charge) in case you are interested to get in contact with other fellows, supporting Chapters and / or Working Groups. These can be only interesting as active persons are participating and organising workshops, events or other activities. The Facebook group will still active until the MCFA is complete liquidated. It is very probable, that the group will still alive afterwards, with the support of the MCAA.
In case you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact Natalia Balcazar on the email above mentioned.
Thank you for your support - since 1996 we have done a lot!
Best regards
Natalia Balcazar, former Chair and liquidator